Word: thrive
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...Felix ("Pedro") Pedroni, an Italian immigrant who in 1902 made the first strike in the hills above Fairbanks. It also traces -of course-the peregrinations of Alaska's late poet laureate, Robert W. Service, who wrote: "This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive...
...Woodward argues that primary emphasis must be on social reforms because the Viet Cong thrive in their absence. Yet field work in Southeast Asian villages convinces me that conditions of insecurity and the promise of power more nearly explain the Viet Cong than does lack of reforms. In most villages, government, aside from an occasional policeman, has never been a significant presence. Consequently nothing in the village can stand up to a determined guerrilla minority. Steve Young...
...museum directors thrive on a mixture of acquisitiveness and showmanship. In his first month as director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum former New York Parks Commissioner Thomas P. F. Hoving, 36, has put his theatrical talents to good use. To get New Yorkers to take a fresh view of the Met's treasures, he displayed some 600 of them, ranging from the silver portrait of a 4th century Sassanian king to Marie Antoinette's doghouse, under the title "In the Presence of Kings." The array drew 62,000 visitors to the museum on a recent Sunday. Last...
...painting as a career. But producing folk art remained largely a part-time occupation of the village cabinetmaker, sign painter, stonecutter or shipwright-or was carried on by the womenfolk at home. The practitioners were nearly always self-taught, untrained in technique or even perspective, and tended to thrive far from urban cultural centers. But they made up for their deficiencies with sharp-eyed observation, an infectious joyousness in their labor, and a remarkable freshness of vision (see color...
Bureaucratic inertia and sensitivity to criticism have so far been more troublesome than political entanglements. The Center has contracted to evaluate several urban programs run by government agencies and non-profit groups. To their chagrin, the Center's researchers are finding, as one put it, that "while academics may thrive on criticism, bureaucrats don't." When one of the Center's reports criticized a Roxbury agency for not reaching the low-income population that it was supposed to serve, the agency and the Federal officials who were financing it immediately denounced the Joint Center...